System and method for analyzing, evaluating and ranking properties using artificial intelligence

ABSTRACT

The embodiments herein provide a system and method to analyse properties at a scale on more than 25 distinct factors and assign them a score from 0-100 showing to identify a strong investment on a selected property using artificial intelligence model. The system collects the data various third-party systems by means of API connection, web scraping, store the data and provides the final investment ranking score using the data collected using an AI model that. A primary filter removes the properties that do not meet preliminary criteria from the acquisition pipeline. A web-based application complements the AI model’s scoring by allowing human analysts to evaluate and score the property. The scores provided by the analysts are stored for retraining the AI model. The final investment ranking score is a weighted sum of proximity score, market score and financial score.

BACKGROUND Technical Field

The embodiments herein are generally related to field of real estatesand investment. The embodiments herein are particularly related to asystem and method for analysing properties with respect to investment.The embodiments herein are more particularly related to a system andmethod for analysing, evaluating and ranking properties using artificialintelligence.

Description of Related Art

Real estate markets in most countries are not as organized or efficientas markets for other, more liquid investment instruments. Individualproperties are unique to themselves and not directly interchangeable,which makes evaluating investments less certain. Unlike otherinvestments, real estate is fixed in a specific location and derivesmuch of its value from that location. Industrial real estate withresidential real estate, the perceived safety of a neighbourhood and thenumber of services or amenities nearby can increase the value of aproperty. For this reason, the economic and social situation in an areais often a major factor in determining the value of its real estate.

Property valuation is often the preliminary step taken during a realestate investment. Information asymmetry is commonplace in real estatemarkets, where one party may have more accurate information regardingthe actual value of the property. Real estate investors typically use avariety of real estate appraisal techniques to determine the value ofproperties prior to purchase. This typically includes gatheringdocuments and information about the property, inspecting the physicalproperty, and comparing it to the market value of comparable properties.A common method of valuing real estate involves dividing its netoperating income by its capitalization rate, or CAP rate.

Numerous national and international real estate appraisal associationsexist for the purpose of standardizing property valuation. Investmentproperties are often purchased from a variety of sources, includingmarket listings, real estate agents or brokers, banks, governmententities such as public auctions, sales by owners, and real estateinvestment trusts.

Having contrasting investment ideologies and ethos, the investors differin terms of what features they take into account to judge a property.Some may rate a property high while others may deem the same unworthy ofinvestment. Although they differ in their mindsets and perspectives,they converge on the fact that they expect a good share of return fortheir investment. So, before investing they estimate the return they getfor their investment. To estimate the return, they use the followingthings: a). Past data and statistics; b) Attractions and nearby places;and c) Socio-environmental aspects.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past by collectingand analysing the past data and statistics. Although markets are seldomdeterministic, it is highly unlikely that the market statistics willchange unless situations are in an extreme state of flux. Investors,thus at first try to find the statistics (both short-term rentals andproperty appreciation) for equivalent properties in a vicinity. Usingthese data, they try to figure out the revenue that would be made by theproperty in the coming years. If they deem the return good enough, theproperty passes the first test which is the test based on past data.

In the attractions and nearby places field, people look into nearbyrestaurants, attractions, downtowns, airports, and other things tofigure out if a given market will turn into a “must visit” one, althoughthey were not in the past.

In the Socio-environmental aspects, people consider aspects like theunemployment rate, crime rate, quality of life, temperature, and soforth to predict if a given market will boom based on these patterns.

While the tools and the features of properties used to gauge theirgoodness of investment may be divided into different groups, they fallunder the above three categories almost exclusively.

So, there is a requirement of investors to identify, analyse and rank aselected property with respect to investment and to understand howstrong the investment in the property is.

Hence there is a need for a system and method to analyse properties at ascale on a plurality of (more than 25) mutually different factors andassign them a score from 0-100 showing to identify a strong investmenton a selected property.

The abovementioned shortcomings, disadvantages and problems areaddressed herein, which will be understood by reading and studying thefollowing specification.

OBJECTIVES OF THE EMBODIMENTS HEREIN

The primary object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to analyse a plurality of properties at a scale on more than 25mutually different factors and assign them a score from 0-100 toidentify a strong investment on a selected property using artificialintelligence model.

Another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod for generating AI model for providing a ranking on the pluralityof properties under evaluation using the data collected.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod for collecting the data from various third-party systems by meansof API connection, web scraping.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to provide a primary filter for removing the properties that donot meet a preliminary criterion such as legal, crime rating andliveability, etc., from the acquisition pipeline.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to provide a web platform called HUMINT platform, which is aweb-based application that complements the AI model’s scoring byallowing human analysts to evaluate and score the property.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to store and use the scores provided by the analysts inretraining the AI model.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod for providing a ranking on properties using financial, proximityand market analysis.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to conduct a cohort analysis to find short term rentals similarto the property under consideration using filtering criteria thatinclude location-based parameter or data or features (such as address,zip code, latitude and longitude coordinates) and physical features(property type, bedrooms, bathrooms, max guests, amenities).

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to perform time-series analysis in these resulting comps data anduse it to develop a model to estimate monthly ADR, occupancy rates,revenue, and reservation days of the property under consideration forthe future.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to estimate a cap rate and to assign a financial score to theproperty based on the estimated cap rate.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to estimate a proximity score and a market score to the propertyto indicate the strength of investing on the property.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to estimate a proximity score based on factors likeschools/colleges/universities, hospitals/clinics, gym/fitness centers,train stations/bus stations, Airports, Stores, restaurants, stadiums,downtowns/business centers, tourist attraction centers such as museums,churches, parks, theatres, and any other things that are tagged astourist attractions.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to estimate a Real Estate Market score based on factors likedemography, employment, and other socio-environmental aspects likeweather quality, comfort index, crime rates, etc.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to estimate a final score which is simply a weighted sum ofmarket score, proximity score and financial score.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to estimate a final score which is simply a weighted sum offinancial score, proximity score and market score.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to estimate a proximity score comprising downtown score,restaurant score, airport score, attraction score, and store score.

Yet another object of the embodiments herein is to develop a system andmethod to estimate a market score comprising walk score, populationdensity score, crime score, house appreciation score, job prospectscore, weather score, air quality score, and water quality score.

These and other objects and advantages of the embodiments herein willbecome readily apparent from the following detailed description taken inconjunction with the accompanying drawings.

SUMMARY

The following details present a simplified summary of the embodimentsherein to provide a basic understanding of the several aspects of theembodiments herein. This summary is not an extensive overview of theembodiments herein. It is not intended to identify key/critical elementsof the embodiments herein or to delineate the scope of the embodimentsherein. Its sole purpose is to present the concepts of the embodimentsherein in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detaileddescription that is presented later.

The other objects and advantages of the embodiments herein will becomereadily apparent from the following description taken in conjunctionwith the accompanying drawings. It should be understood, however, thatthe following descriptions, while indicating preferred embodiments andnumerous specific details thereof, are given by way of illustration andnot of limitation. Many changes and modifications may be made within thescope of the embodiments herein without departing from the spiritthereof, and the embodiments herein include all such modifications.

The various embodiments herein provide a system and method to analyseproperties at a scale on more than 25 mutually different factors andassign them a score from 0-100 to identify a strong investment on aselected property using artificial intelligence model.

According to an embodiment herein, a system is provided to analyseproperties at a scale on more than 25 mutually different factors andassign them a score from 0-100 to identify a strong investment on aselected property using artificial intelligence model. The systemcomprises components that collect the data, store the data and an AImodel that provides the final investment ranking score using the datacollected. The data is collected from various third-party systems bymeans of API connection, web scraping. A primary filter removes theproperties that do not meet preliminary criteria such as legal, crimerating, liability, and liveability, etc., from the acquisition pipeline.The ranking score algorithm is an AI model that is responsible forproviding the investment score for the property under evaluation. Theweb platform is a web-based application that complements the AI model’sscoring by allowing human analysts to evaluate and score the property.The scores provided by the analysts are stored to be later used inretraining the AI model.

According to an embodiment herein, the AI based ranking score algorithmis composed of Proximity Analysis, Market Analysis and FinancialAnalysis.

According to an embodiment herein, the AI based ranking score algorithmis executed to collect property features or data such as locationfeatures, physical features and investment features using a plurality ofthird-party systems by means of API connection, web scraping. Thecollected property data are subjected to Proximity Analysis MarketAnalysis and Financial Analysis to obtain a proximity score, a marketscore and a financial score to estimate final investment ranking score.The final investment ranking score is simply a weighted sum of proximityscore, market score and financial score. Mathematically

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Brain Score = 0}\text{.25 * Market Score+ 0}\text{.25 * Proximity Score +}} \\{\text{0}\text{.5 * Financial Score}\text{.}}\end{array}$

The proximity score comprises downtown score, restaurant score, airportscore, attraction score, and store score. The market score compriseswalk score, population density score, crime score, house appreciationscore, job prospect score, weather score, air quality score, and waterquality score. The final investment ranking score is simply a weightedsum of financial score, proximity score and market score. Mathematically

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Brain Score = 0}\text{.25 * proximity score + 0}\text{.25 * market score +}} \\{\text{0}\text{.5 * Financial Score}\text{.}}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the proximity score is calculatedusing the equation:

$\begin{array}{l}{proximity\_ score = 0.1 \times downtown\_ score + 0.1 \times} \\{restaurant\_ score + 0.3 \times airport\_ score +} \\{0.1 \times store\_ score + 0.1\, x\, attraction\_ score.}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the market score is calculatedmathematically as follows:

$\begin{array}{l}{Market\_ score = 0.1 \times walk\_ score + 0.05 \times} \\{population\_ density\_ score + 0.1 \times} \\{crime\_ score + 0.2 \times} \\{house\_ appreciation\_ score + 0.1 \times} \\{job\_ prospect\_ score + 0.1 \times} \\{weather\_ score + 0.05 \times} \\{air\_ quality\_ score + 0.05 \times} \\{water\_ quality\_ score.}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the location features or parametersor data of a property includes full address of the property, and whereinthe address includes name of the city in which the property is located,state, Zip code, latitude, and longitude of the property.

According to an embodiment herein, the physical features or parametersor data includes a type of property, and amenities provided in theproperty. The amenities include maximum number of guests accommodated inthe property, number of bathrooms and bedrooms provided in the property.A furnishing price of the property is calculated based on the number ofbedrooms and number of bathrooms and its furnishing cost.

According to an embodiment herein, the full address data, zip code, thelatitude and longitude coordinates, and the physical features orparameters or data are subjected to a cohort analysis to obtain anoutput. The output of the cohort analysis is subjected to time seriesanalysis to compute an expected month-wise ADR and an expectedmonth-wise reservation days to compute an expected yearly revenue forthe property.

According to an embodiment herein, the investment related features ofthe property comprise listed price of the property on market, the numberof days on market with the listed price, and the last known price on themarket, and the current status of the property. A purchase price of theproperty is calculated based on the listed price of the property onmarket, the number of days on market with the listed price, and the lastknown price on the market. A property tax and the utility tax arecalculated based on the computed purchase price of the property. Aclosing cost and the total utility cost are calculated based on thecomputed purchase value and computed furnishing cost.

According to an embodiment herein, a plurality of derived parameters iscalculated based on the collected investment related parameters. Thederived parameters include an insurance cost and the HOA fees for theproperty.

According to an embodiment herein, a property management cost, and arepair and maintenance cost are calculated based on the estimatedexpected yearly revenue of the property.

According to an embodiment herein, an operating expense for the propertyis calculated based on the computed property management cost, thecomputed repair and maintenance cost, the computed property tax, thecomputed utility tax, the computed insurance cost and the computed HOAfees for the property.

According to an embodiment herein, a net operating income is calculatedbased on the estimated expected yearly revenue of the property and thecomputed operating expenses of the property.

According to an embodiment herein, a cap rate for the property iscalculated based on the computed net operating income and the totalutility cost of the property. A financial score of the property iscalculated based on the computed cap rate for the property.

According to an embodiment herein, the cohort analysis is performed onthe collected location-based data/parameter/feature and the collectedphysical parameter data of the property under consideration. Thecollected location-based data and the collected physical parameter dataof the property under consideration are filtered using a filteringmodule to find short term rentals of the property similar to theproperty under consideration. The location-based data includes address,zip code, latitude and longitude coordinates of the property underconsideration. The physical parameter data of the property underconsideration comprises property type, bedrooms, bathrooms, max guests,amenities provided in the property under consideration.

According to an embodiment herein, the priority of these parameters usedfor filtering includes Latitude and Longitude coordinates, Zip code,number of bedrooms, and number of bathrooms, maximum number of guests tobe accommodated, and type of property, and amenities provided in theproperty for the property under consideration. The property underconsideration is ignored and ranked of least interest or ranking, whenthe number of computations obtained based on the search criteria is lessthan 12. The number of filtering criteria is reduced until at least adozen computations are obtained. A dozen computations are obtained whenthe number of filtering criteria is greater than 4. When the number offiltering criteria is equal to or less than 4, a search for the propertyin a broader vicinity is conducted.

After cohort analysis, at least a dozen properties with their monthlyRevenue, ADR, occupancy rates, and reservation days are obtained. Allthese resulting comps data and the property under consideration have thesame values for the features that form the filtering criteria. Atime-series analysis is performed on these resulting computed data todevelop an AI model to estimate monthly ADR, occupancy rates, revenue,and reservation days of the property under consideration for the future.

According to an embodiment herein, a cap rate for the property iscalculated using the algorithm which is executed on a hardware processorin the system. The method of calculating the cap rate comprises thefollowing steps given below.

-   a) Input property _tax_percentage, utility_percentage,    closing_cost_percentage, property_management_percentage,    repair_and_maintainance_percentage values-   b) Calculate the annual value using the following mathematical    equation:-   $\begin{array}{l}    \text{annual\_revenue =} \\    \text{sum of month-wise product of ADR and reservation days}    \end{array}$-   c) Calculate the property tax using the following mathematical    equation:-   $\begin{array}{l}    \text{property\_tax =property\_tax\_percentage/100 *} \\    \text{purchase\_price}    \end{array}$-   d) Calculate the utility value using the following mathematical    equation:-   utility = utility_percentage/100 * purchase_price-   e) Calculate the property management cost using the following    mathematical equation:-   $\begin{array}{l}    \text{property\_management =} \\    \text{property\_management\_percentage/100*annual\_revenue}    \end{array}$-   f) Calculate the repair and maintenance cost of the property using    the following mathematical equation:-   $\begin{array}{l}    {\text{repair\_and\_maintainance}\text{=}\,\,\,} \\    {\text{repair\_and\_maintainance\_percentage}\,\,\,\text{/}\,\,\text{100}\,\,\,\,\text{*}} \\    \text{annual\_revenue}    \end{array}$-   g) Calculate the operating expenses cost of the property using the    following mathematical equation:-   $\begin{array}{l}    {\text{operating\_expenses}\,\,\text{=}\,\,\text{utility}\,\,\,\text{+}\,\,\text{property\_tax}\,\,\text{+}\,\,\text{insurance}\,\,\text{+}\,} \\    {\,\text{HOA}\,\text{fees}\,\text{+}\,\,\text{property\_management}\,\, +} \\    \text{repair\_and\_maintaince}    \end{array}$-   h) Calculate the net operating income of the property using the    following mathematical equation:-   net_operating_income = annual_revenue - operating_expenses-   i) Calculate the closing cost of the property using the following    mathematical equation:-   $\begin{array}{l}    {\text{closing\_cost}\,\text{=}\,\text{closing\_cost\_percentage}\,\text{/}\,\text{100 *}\,} \\    \left( \text{purchase\_price + furniture\_price} \right)    \end{array}$-   j) Calculate the total utility value of the property using the    following mathematical equation:-   total_uses = purchase_price + furniture_price + closing_cost-   k) Calculate the cap rate for the property using the following    mathematical equation:-   cap_rate = net_operating_income / total uses * 100

According to an embodiment herein, a financial score for the property isassigned or calculated based on the computed cap rate value using analgorithm. The method for calculating the financial score using thealgorithm comprised the following steps.

100 * (1 - exp(-cap_rate / 4.5))

According to one embodiment herein, the steps used in the filteringprocess to identify a list of suitable properties for analysis andinvestment are as follows: Different types of properties performdifferently even in the same market. Properties with fewer guests(targeted to couples) perform well compared to properties with moreaccommodates (targeted to family) in the area renowned for honeymoonsand dating (e.g., Maldives). When a property under evaluation (selectedproperty) is not already listed on real estate market platform, therevenue of the nearby properties similar to the selected property isestimated under the assumption that the performance of the selectedproperty performance does not differ by a large margin. Hence there is aneed to find out properties comparable to the selected property. Thesteps followed are Filtering a property based on physical features; andfiltering a property based on location;

According to an embodiment herein, the steps of filtering property basedon physical features are as follows: when the selected property has xbeds, y bedrooms, z bathrooms, and m guests_counts, then the propertiesthat pass all the following criteria are forwarded to the next stage.The criteria for passing the properties to the next stages are:

-   a) The property must have beds count in between x-2 and x+2;-   b) The property must have bedrooms_count in between y-1 and y+2;-   c) The property must have bathrooms_count in between z-1 and z+1;-   d) The property must have guests-count in between m-2 and m+2;-   e) The limit of 2 is used for beds and guests as they have a higher    variance compared to bedrooms and bathrooms.

According to an embodiment herein, the properties are filtered based onlocation parameters in a free market, a property competes with othercomparable properties within its vicinity. According to an embodimentherein, the vicinity is defined by a circle of radius 1500 m with theselected property in the center. However, there are properties in sparseregions where none of the other properties within 1500 m survives thefirst stage filtering process. This creates a data scarcity problem. Tocounter this, two filtering processes are performed based on twocriteria, so that the properties must pass at least one filteringprocess to move to the next stage. The two filtering processes areproperties lying within 1500 m and a preset number of neighbourhoodproperties, and wherein the preset number is 20.

According to an embodiment herein, all the properties that survive thefirst stage filtering process and lying within 1500 m are passed to nextstep in the filtering process within 1500 m. Let Si be the set ofproperties.

According to an embodiment herein, a preset number of properties thatsurvive the first stage filtering process and are in neighbourhood ofeach other are passed to next step in the neighbourhood filteringprocess. Let S₂ be the set of properties. These two processes ensurethat at least 20 comps are selected. The set of properties that survivefiltering by location is S₁ U S₂. K-nearest neighbors are also selectedbased on a radius-based selection process. Wherein the selection ofradius depends on the location and features such as bed, bedrooms,bathrooms, guests. In most of the cases S₂ □ S₁.

According to an embodiment herein, for few cases where either the realestate market listings are sparse, or the property of consideration hasan unusual combination of beds, bedrooms, bathrooms, and guests; thenproperties that pass through the first stage filtering process are fewereven in dense areas. For example, a property with 25 beds, 16 beds, 19bathrooms, and 24 guests. In the above two cases, S₁ □ S₂.

According to an embodiment herein, in the cases where S₂ □ S₁., which istrue mostly, the steps of filtering based on physical properties and thefiltering process based on location are commutative, which indicatesthat the order of filtering does not play a significant role, or theorder processing is not required. But the order of processing issignificant or required when S₁ □ S₂.

According to an embodiment herein, two more filtering processes areconducted. They are Filtering by current price, and Filtering byamenities.

According to one embodiment herein, the process of filtering by currentprices comprises checking the current nightly price and selecting theproperties between a certain range (let us say between half of our priceand double of our price)

According to one embodiment herein, the process of filtering byamenities involves using intersection of properties over Union ofproperties to find comps. Let us say our property has amenities A, B, C,D, and property in the vicinity has amenities B, D, E. There are 2common amenities among us and 5 amenities in the union. So, theAmenities IoU score is ⅖ = 0.4. A filtering criterion is selected suchthat only those properties with more than 0.25, or other values, areselected. The search of identifying comps is thought of as a funnelwhere properties with disparities in terms of beds and bathrooms areshrugged off in the first instance, and distant properties are shruggedoff in the second instance, and so forth.

The process of finding comps provides the properties that are comparableto selected properties along with their past statistics. An example ofcomps data is shown below

PROPERTY Bed, Bath, Lat, Amenities ADR_JAN 2018 ....... ADR_JAN 2022REV_JAN-2018 .......... REV_JAN-2022 P₁ 2,3,3,9... 278 309 4321 5676 P₂3,2,2,2... ........ ..... P₃₈ 4,2,3,3 389 487 5212 5223 Median 312.3 3565434 5232

According to an embodiment herein, the median revenue of the comps foreach month ranging from January 2018 to January 2022 is calculated fromthe comps data. The median is column wise median rather than the revenueof a property that outperformed half of the comps and lagged off to theremaining half. A Prophet time-series model is trained to fit these pastmedian revenues. The trained model is then used to estimate medianrevenues from February 2022 to January 2023 (12 months). Assuming thatthe selected property performs similar to a property in the 50thpercentile, the revenue earned is similar to the estimated medianrevenues. The revenues for each month are summed to calculate theestimated annual revenue R. The Average Daily rate (ADR), and occupancyrate for the next 12 months are estimated. The data set in the realestate platform relies on this time series analysis to estimate annualrevenue R.

According to an embodiment herein, the capitalization rate (cap rate) isthe rate of return on a real estate investment property based on theincome expected to be generated by the property. The estimated Revenuedisplays only one side of the solution, while the remaining revenueconsists of the expenses side of things. Considering only one side ofexpenses while overlooking the other side leads to a wrong calculation.Hence the revenue and expenses are both considered for calculating thecap_rate for each year. The cap rate is calculated based on the twokinds of expenses: one kind of expense is a non-recurring or one-time(cost) expenses. The non-recurring expenses includes purchase price,furnishing cost, etc. Another or second kind of expense is a Recurringcost which includes Repair and maintenance, Insurance, Property Tax, HOAfees, etc.

According to an embodiment herein, the two kinds of expenses arerespectively calculated using the respective equations.

-   a) The property tax is calculated using the following equation.-   $\begin{array}{l}    {\text{Property tax =}\left( \text{Property Tax Percentage / 100} \right)\, \times} \\    {\text{purchase price}\text{.}}    \end{array}$-   b) The closing cost is calculated using the following equation.-   $\begin{array}{l}    {\text{Closing cost =}\left( \text{Closing Cost Percentage/100} \right) \times} \\    \left( \text{Purchase Price + Furnishing Cost} \right)    \end{array}$-   c) The utility is calculated using the following equation.-   Utility = (Utility Percentage/100) × Purchase Price.-   d) The total usage cost is calculated using the following equation.-   Total Usage = Purchase Price + Furnishing cost + Closing Cost-   e) The Property Management Cost is calculated using the following    equation.-   $\begin{array}{l}    \text{Property Management =} \\    {\left( \text{Repair and maintenance percentage/100} \right) \times} \\    {\text{Estimated Annual Revenue}\text{.}}    \end{array}$-   f) The operating expenses is calculated using the following    equation.-   $\begin{array}{l}    \text{Operating Expenses = Utility + Property Tax + Insurance +} \\    \text{HOA Fees + Property management +} \\    {\text{Repair and maintenance cost}\text{.}}    \end{array}$-   g) The Net Operating Income is calculated using the following    equation.-   $\begin{array}{l}    \text{Net Operating Income = Estimated Annual Revenue +} \\    {\text{Operating Expenses}\text{.}}    \end{array}$-   h) The Cap Rate is calculated using the following equation.-   Cap Rate =(Net Operating Income/Total uses) × 100.

Generally, properties with a cap rate above 6% are considered good, andthose above 10% are considered excellent for the investment.

According to an embodiment herein, an asymptotic exponential function isused to transform the cap rate into the financial score. Mathematically,

Financial Score = 100[1- exp(- Cap_Rate/4.5)]

The above process to calculate financial scores has the followingshortcomings: The process does not account for the uniqueness ofproperty:

-   a) Property types like treehouses, farmhouses, etc. have uniqueness    as their selling points. This method of selecting comps and using    their past data to predict the future gloss over the individuality    and distinctness of a property-   b) Aesthetics and sizes: Even two nearby properties with exactly    similar features, are mutually different in aesthetic appearance and    parameters. Aesthetics, placement of bedrooms and bathrooms, and    size of the property play a vital role in revenue estimation, which    is completely ignored in this implementation of Financial Score.    Maybe, Aesthetics, room positioning, and sizes should be taken care    of in the HUMINT platform.

According to an embodiment herein, the proximity sore is calculatedbased on store score, restaurant score, airport score, attraction scoreand down town score.

According to an embodiment herein, the store score is calculated basedon the nearby stores data received from the Google API with respect toproperty location.

According to an embodiment herein, a restaurant score is calculatedbased on nearby restaurant data received from the Google API withrespect to property location.

According to an embodiment herein, the airport score is calculated basedon the nearby airports data received from the Google API with respect toproperty location.

According to an embodiment herein, the attraction score is calculatedbased on the nearby attractions facility data received from the GoogleAPI with respect to property location.

According to an embodiment herein, the downtown score is calculatedbased on the nearby downtowns data received from downtown databaserespect to property location.

According to an embodiment herein, the Proximity Score is calculatedbased on many factors like schools/colleges/universities,hospitals/clinics, gym/fitness centers, train stations/bus stations,restaurants, stadiums, downtowns/business centers, museums, churches,parks, theatres, and many more, that are looked into to evaluate orjudge whether a given area is a good spot for short term rentals. It ispractically not feasible to take into account all of these factors. So,these samples give us a reliable picture of all the categories. Thecategories selected are Stores, Restaurants, Downtowns, Airports, andAttraction (which includes museums, parks, theatres, churches, and anyother things that are tagged as tourist attractions). Google Place APIis calculated to retrieve data for Stores, Restaurants, Airports, andAttractions. Since there is no information about the downtown in theGoogle API, a downtown database is used for it. A proximity Score iscalculated based on store score, restaurant score, airport score,attraction score, and downtown score.

According to an embodiment herein, the proximity score comprises a storescore. The store score is calculated as people do not intend to travelfarther in search of a store. Thus, they only look for stores within aradius of 6000 m (assumed). Note that, 6000 m here is a Euclideandistance (Circumferential Distance to be exact), which means thedistance of an actual path joining a desired location to the store canbe greater than 6000 m. The steps of calculating the store score orvalue are given as follows. Let us say there S₁, S₂, S₃ are three storesand with ratings r₁, r₂, r₃, number of ratings n₁, n₂, n₃ and at adistance d₁, d₂, d₃ respectively from the desired location. Each of thestores adds a little bit of value to the desired location. To calculatethe value that a store adds to a property at a distance d, the followingpoints are assumed:

-   i. The higher the rating, the higher the value added-   ii. The higher the number of ratings, the higher the value added-   iii. The nearer the store, the higher the value added

Heuristically, we have derived the value added by the store S₁on ourlocation, and it is obtained by multiplying the square root of n₁ withr₁ and dividing the multiplication product by a square of distance d₁,mathematically Value_added = (square root of n₁ x r₁)/square of d₁

The number of ratings is square rooted because it has a high variance.The value added is inversely proportional to the square of a distance tothe store. This is because people choose a nearby store even if it is alittle worse compared to another better store which is a little bitfarther.

Then, the total store value in our location is:

$\begin{matrix}{total\_ store\_ value = {\sum{value\_ added\_ by\_ the\_ store}}} \\\left( {all\_ stores} \right)\end{matrix}$

The total store value is then transformed into the store_score of aproperty:

store_score = 100(1 − exp (−total_store_value))

According to an embodiment herein, the proximity score further comprisesa restaurant score. Normally the people travel a bit farther when itcomes to restaurants. Thus, the people only look for restaurants withina radius of 20000 m (Euclidean). Note that an increase the radius iscostlier since the returned response is paginated on more pages, each ofwhich charges us more bucks.

A value added to our property by restaurant Riwith rating r₁, number ofrating n₁, and at a distance di from our location is:

Value_added = (square root of n₁ x r₁)/d₁^(1.5)

Value added is inversely proportional to the 1.5th power of a distanceto the restaurant. This is because people are more willing to travelfarther distances if restaurants there are better than those nearby.Then, the total restaurant value in our location is:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{i}\text{.}total\_ restaurant\_ value = \sum value\_ added\_ by\_ the\_ restaurant} \\{all\_ restaurants}\end{array}$

The total restaurant value is transformed into a restaurant score using:

$\begin{array}{l}{Restaurant\mspace{6mu} Score = 100\left( {1 - \exp\left( {- \text{total\_}restaurant\_ value} \right)} \right)} \\{\text{10}\text{.0}}\end{array}$

The value 10.0 in the exponent is obtained empirically. The restaurantscore was calculated at the different places in a desired location orcity and 10.0 was found to be more apt.

According to an embodiment herein the proximity score further comprisesan Attraction Score which is calculated as follows:

-   The threshold radius for attractions is assumed to be 35000 m. A    value added to the selected property by restaurant Riwith rating r₁,    number of rating n₁, and at a distance d₁ from our location is given    below:-   The attraction value added is obtained by multiplying the square    root of n₁ with r₁ and dividing the multiplication product by the    1.5th power of a distance d₁. It is mathematically represented as

Value_added = (square root of n₁ x r₁)/d₁^(1.5)

Then, the total attraction value in our location is:

$\begin{matrix}{\text{Total attraction value =}{\sum\text{value added by an attraction center}}} \\\text{all attaction centers}\end{matrix}$

The total attraction value is transformed into an attraction score usingthe following equation:

Attraction Score = 100[1 − exp(−1.5total_attraction_value)]

According to an embodiment herein, the proximity score includes anairport score. The threshold radius for the airport is assumed to be45000 m. (With a quick search in google maps, 45 km of Euclideandistance is covered in around 2 hours in a given city or location).

A value added to our property by airport A₁ with rating r₁, number ofrating n₁, and at a distance d₁ from our location is:

$value\_ added = \frac{\text{multiplier}\sqrt{\times}\text{n}_{1} \times}{d_{1}}$

where the multiplier is equal to:

-   20 if international is present in the airport’s name; and-   0 if any of helipad, heliport, helicopter, or aviation is present in    the airport’s name else it is 1.

Value added is inversely proportional to only the distance (power 1).

This is because an airport is an obligatory place if one wants to travelthe nearby locations. Then, the total airport value in our location is:

$\begin{matrix}{\text{Total airport value =}{\sum\text{Value added by the airport}}} \\\text{all airports}\end{matrix}$

The total airport value is transformed into an airport score using:

Airport score = 100(1-exp[-total airport value])/3.

According to an embodiment herein, the proximity score further includesa downtown score. In downtown score calculating process, a manuallycompiled database is searched to obtain data of the nearby downtowns.Since there is no information about average ratings and the total numberof ratings, value-added by downtown at a distance is calculated as:

Value added = 1/d₁^(1.5)

Then, the total downtown value in our location is:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Total downtown\_value} = \sum\text{Value added by the airport}} \\\text{all airports}\end{array}$

The total downtown value is transformed into a downtown score using:

downtown score = 100(1 − exp [−30x total downtown value]).

The proximity score is calculated using the equation:

$\begin{array}{l}{proximity\_ score = 0.1 \times downtown\_ score +} \\{0.1 \times restaurant\_ score + 0.3 \times airport\_ score +} \\{0.2 \times store\_ score + 0.1\mspace{6mu} x\mspace{6mu} attraction\_ score.}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the market sore is calculated basedon walk score, crime score, density score, appreciation score, jobprospect score, weather score, air quality score, water quality score,and short-term rental score.

According to an embodiment herein, the walk score is calculated based onthe data received from the walk score API with respect to propertylocation.

According to an embodiment herein, a crime score is calculated based onViolent crime index and Property Crime index received from market datawith respect to property location.

According to an embodiment herein, a population density score iscalculated based on population density index received from the marketdata with respect to property location.

According to an embodiment herein, a market appreciation score iscalculated based on house appreciation value in year and the houseappreciation value in 5 years obtained from the market data with respectto property location.

According to an embodiment herein, a job prospect score is calculatedbased on unemployment rate and future job growth rate obtained from themarket data with respect to property location.

According to an embodiment herein, a weather score is calculated basedon weather comfortability data obtained from the market data withrespect to property location.

According to an embodiment herein, an air quality score and a waterquality score are calculated based on air quality data and water qualitydata obtained from the market data with respect to property location.

According to an embodiment herein, a short-term rental score iscalculated based on short term rental trend data derived from short termrental data obtained from the closest market data with respect toproperty location.

According to an embodiment herein, the short-term rental prospect isonly considered in the financial score and is not considered in theappreciation of real estate. A user or buyer is always interested ininvesting in the properties, with the aim of selling the property at ahigher price in a later date. Additionally, it is myopic to considerthat the later period is just one year. Another thing which is missedout in the process is the growth of the market in terms of demography,employment, and other socio-environmental aspects like weather quality,comfort index, crime rates, etc. The market score is calculated tocovers them all. The data dump from a social or government database iscollected to obtain data about crime, demographics, house appreciation,job prospects, weather comfortability, air quality, and water quality.Walk score API is used to get the walk score. The short-term rentaltrend is obtained using real estate market data. The market score isalso a weighted average of its component scores. The component scoresare walk score, crime score, House Appreciation Score, Job prospectscore, Population density score, Weather score, air quality score, waterquality score, short-term rental trend score. The market score iscalculated mathematically as follows:

$\begin{array}{l}{Market\_ score = 0.1 \times walk\_ score +} \\{0.05 \times population\_ density\_ score + 0.1 \times crime\_ score +} \\{0.2 \times house\_ appreciation\_ score + 0.1 \times job\_ prospect\_ score +} \\{0.1 \times weather\_ score + 0.05 \times \text{a}ir\_ quality\_ score +} \\{0.05 \times water\_ quality\_ score.}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the market score comprises a Walkscore. The Walk Score helps to find a walkable place to live. Walk Scoreis a number between 0 and 100 that measures the walkability of anyaddress. It is obtained directly from the Walk score API.

According to an embodiment herein, the market score comprises PopulationDensity Score. The Population Density Score is calculated as follows.The Population density obtained is in terms of per sq. km. Usually,neither too high nor too low population density is considered good.Thus, the density score is expected to increase if the density increasesup to some point, beyond which the density score is expected todecrease. A bell-shaped function (binomial distribution) with a mean of15000 and a standard deviation of 20000 is used to convert populationdensity to the score.

$\text{Population}\,\text{Density}\,\text{Score} = \, 100\, \times \,\text{exp}\,\,\frac{\lbrack\, - (\text{population}\,\text{density} - 15000)\rbrack}{20000}$

According to an embodiment herein, the market score comprises a crimescore. The crime score is calculated as follows. Violent crime index andProperty Crime index in an area are obtained from the database, bothranging from 0 to 100 (the lower the crime index, the safer the area).Crime Score is calculated as:

Crime_Score = 100 − (violent crime index + property crime index)/2.

According to an embodiment herein, the market score comprises a houseappreciation score. The House Appreciation score is calculated asfollows. The data base provides us with the data regarding houseappreciation in the last year as well as in the last five years. Theappreciation values are provided in a way that

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{current\_house\_price = house\_price\_last\_year} \times} \\{\left( \text{1 + appreciation\_last\_year} \right).}\end{array}$

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Similarly, current\_house\_price = price\_5yrs\_ago} \times} \\{\left( {1\,\, + \,\,\text{appreciation\_in\_5yrs}} \right).}\end{array}$

The house appreciation score is calculated as:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Appreciation\_score = 0}\text{.7} \times \text{appreciation\_last year +}} \\{\text{0}\text{.3}\,\, \times \,\,\left( {1/5} \right)\,\, \times \,\,\text{appreciation\_5 years}\text{.}}\end{array}$

A weightage of ⅕ is used to convert the 5 yr appreciation score into theframe of 1 year. The weights of 0.7 and 0.3 are the weight associatedwith appreciation last year and appreciation in the last five years,respectively.

According to an embodiment herein, the market score comprises a JobProspect Score. The Job Prospect Score is calculated as follows. Thecurrent unemployment rate and future job growth index are obtained fromthe data base. The data is in such a unit that

Employed_fraction = 1 − unemployment_rate

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Future}\_\text{employed}\_\text{fraction} =} \\{\text{Current}\_\text{employed}\_\text{fraction}\, \times \,(1 + \text{job}\_\text{growth})}\end{array}$

Combining these two equations:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Future}\_\text{employed}\_\text{fraction} =} \\{\,(1\, - \,\text{unemployment}\_\text{rate})\,\, \times \,\,(1 + \text{job}\_\text{growth})}\end{array}$

The future employed fraction is then converted into the job prospectscore as:

$\begin{array}{l}{Job\_ prospect\_ score = 100 \times} \\{\left( {1 - exp\left( {- 2 \times future\_ employed\_ fraction} \right)} \right).}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the market score comprises WeatherScore. The Weather score is calculated as follows: Weathercomfortability is obtained from a database, and it ranges from 0 to 10,out of which 10 indicates the best. To convert weather comfortabilityrange into a weather score, it is simply multiplied by 10.

Weather_score = 10 × weather_comfortability

According to an embodiment herein, the market score comprises AirQuality Score and Water quality score. The Air quality and water qualityscore is calculated as follows: Air quality and water quality of theclosest city are obtained from the database, both ranging from 0 to 100,100 being the best. These values are used as it is in the air qualityscore and water quality score.

According to an embodiment herein, the market score comprises Short-termrental trend score. The short-term rental trend score is calculated byfiltering by location with a radius of 2000 m, and k=100 is used to findthe market.

Finally, the market score is calculated mathematically as follows:

$\begin{array}{l}{Market\_ score = 0.1 \times walk\_ score +} \\{0.05 \times population\_ density\_ score + 0.1 \times crime\_ score +} \\{0.2 \times house\_ appreciation\_ score + 0.1 \times job\_ prospect\_ score +} \\{0.1 \times weather\_ score + 0.05 \times \text{a}ir\_ quality\_ score +} \\{0.05 \times water\_ quality\_ score.}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the final investment ranking score isa weighted average of its components comprising a financial score, aproximity score, and a market score. The final investment score ismathematically represented by the following equation:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Final Investment Ranking Score} = 0.5 \times financial\_ score +} \\{0.2 \times proximity\_ score + 0.2 \times market\_ score.}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, a method for ranking analysis of theproperty is provided. The method comprises the following steps. Aplurality of property data is periodically collected or scrapped fromthe real estate website of the third parties. The data collected fromthe real estate website of the third parties are checked, and verifiedto find a valid authenticity of the property. When the validauthenticity of the property is correct and successful, an additionaldata is collected from the third-party providers. The data collectedfrom the third-party providers are cleaned, transformed, and aggregated.The cleaned, transformed, and aggregated data collected from thethird-party providers are checked for the legal validity. When the legalvalidity of the cleaned, transformed, and aggregated data collected fromthe third-party providers are found to be valid and successful, the dataare again judged to find whether the successfully validated data meetthe primary criteria. When the successfully validated data meet theprimary criteria, a final ranking score is assigned to the propertyunder consideration. When the score is found to be less than a thresholdlimit, the analysis and recommendation of the property for investment isdiscarded. When the score is found to be more than a threshold limit,the property is passed to human platform for human analysis. When theproperty is accepted by the platform for human analysis, positivefeedback is provided to the system. When the property is not accepted bythe platform for human analysis, negative feedback is provided to thesystem.

These and other aspects of the embodiments herein will be betterappreciated and understood when considered in conjunction with thefollowing description and the accompanying drawings. It should beunderstood, however, that the following descriptions, while indicatingpreferred embodiments and numerous specific details thereof, are givenby way of illustration and not of limitation. Many changes andmodifications may be made within the scope of the embodiments hereinwithout departing from the spirit thereof, and the embodiments hereininclude all such modifications.

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The embodiments herein will be better understood from the followingdetailed description with reference to the drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a flow chart explaining a method for performing afinancial analysis to obtain a financial score of the property underconsideration, according to an embodiment herein;

FIG. 2 illustrates a flow chart explaining a method for performing aproximity analysis to obtain a proximity score of the property underconsideration, according to an embodiment herein;

FIG. 3 illustrates a flow chart explaining a method for performing amarket analysis to obtain a market score of the property underconsideration, according to an embodiment herein; and

FIG. 4 illustrates a method for analysing properties at a scale on morethan 25 mutually different factors and assigning them a score from 0-100to identify a strong investment on a selected property using artificialintelligence model, according to an embodiment herein.

Although the specific features of the embodiments herein are shown insome drawings and not in others. This is done for convenience only aseach feature may be combined with any or all of the other features inaccordance with the embodiments herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

In the following detailed description, a reference is made to theaccompanying drawings that form a part hereof, and in which the specificembodiments that may be practiced is shown by way of illustration. Theseembodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilledin the art to practice the embodiments and it is to be understood thatother changes may be made without departing from the scope of theembodiments. The following detailed description is therefore not to betaken in a limiting sense.

The embodiments herein and the various features and advantageous detailsthereof are explained more fully with reference to the non-limitingembodiments that are illustrated in the accompanying drawings anddetailed in the following description. Descriptions of well-knowncomponents and processing techniques are omitted so as to notunnecessarily obscure the embodiments herein. The examples used hereinare intended merely to facilitate an understanding of ways in which theembodiments herein may be practiced and to further enable those of skillin the art to practice the embodiments herein. Accordingly, the examplesshould not be construed as limiting the scope of the embodiments herein.

FIG. 1 illustrates a flow chart (100) explaining a method for performinga financial analysis to obtain a financial score of the property. Withrespect to FIG. 1 , property features (101) may include locationfeatures (102), physical features (104) and investment related features(105). The location features (102) or parameters or data of a propertyincludes full address of the property, and wherein the address includesname of the city in which the property is located, state, Zip code,latitude, and longitude of the property.

According to an embodiment herein, the physical features (104) orparameters or data includes a type of property, and amenities providedin the property. The amenities include maximum number of guestsaccommodated in the property, number of bathrooms and bedrooms providedin the property. A furnishing price (107) of the property is calculatedbased on the number of bedrooms and number of bathrooms.

According to an embodiment herein, the full address data, zip code, thelatitude and longitude, and the physical features or parameters or dataare used to identify the comparable short term rental properties (103).The past revenue records (111) of those properties are subjected to timeseries analysis (112) to compute an expected yearly revenue (116) forthe property.

According to an embodiment herein, the investment related features (105)of the property comprise listed price of the property on market, thenumber of days on market with the listed price, and the last known priceon the market, and the current status of the property. A purchase price(108) of the property is calculated based on the listed price of theproperty on market, the number of days on market with the listed price,and the last known price on the market. A property tax (114) and theutilities cost (115) are calculated based on the computed purchase priceof the property. A closing cost (110) and the total uses cost (113) arecalculated based on the computed purchase value (108) and computedfurnishing cost (107).

According to an embodiment herein, a plurality of derived parameters(109) is calculated based on the collected investment related parametersby the third-party system (106). The derived parameters include aninsurance cost and the HOA fees (109) for the property.

According to an embodiment herein, a property management cost (117), anda repair and maintenance cost (118) are calculated based on theestimated expected yearly revenue of the property (116).

According to an embodiment herein, an operating expense (120) for theproperty is calculated by an adder or summation module based on thecomputed property management cost (117), the computed repair andmaintenance cost (118), the computed property tax (114), the computedutilities cost (115), the computed insurance cost and the computed HOAfees (109) for the property.

According to an embodiment herein, a net operating income (119) iscalculated based on the estimated expected yearly revenue of theproperty (116) and the computed operating expenses of the property(120).

According to an embodiment herein, a cap rate (121) for the property iscalculated based on the computed net operating income and the totalutility cost of the property. A financial score (122) of the property iscalculated based on the computed cap rate for the property.

FIG. 2 . illustrates a block diagram (200) to depict as to how theProximity Score is calculated to evaluate or judge whether a given areais a good spot for short term rentals. The places of interest that arelooked into are Stores, Restaurants, Downtowns, Airports, and Attraction(which includes museums, parks, theatres, churches, and any other thingsthat are tagged as tourist attractions). Property’s location-basedparameter or data or features (201) like latitude and longitude (202)are provided to Google Places API (203) to retrieve data for nearbyStores (205), Restaurants (206), Airports (207), and Attractions (208).Since there is no information about the downtown in the Google API, adowntown database (204) is used to retrieve data from a nearby downtown209. A proximity Score (215) is calculated based on store score (210),restaurant score (211), airport score (212), attraction score (213), anddowntown score (214).

FIG. 3 illustrates a flow chart (300) showing the computation of MarketScore (320) with respect to property features (302). According to anembodiment herein, the market score comprises a Walk score (312). TheWalk Score helps to find a walkable place to live. Walk Score is anumber between 0 and 100 that measures the walkability of any address.It is obtained directly from the Walk score API (301).

According to an embodiment herein, the market score (320) comprisesPopulation Density Score (314). The Population Density Score iscalculated as follows. The Population density (307) obtained is in termsof per sq. km. Usually, neither too high nor too low population densityis considered good. Thus, the density score (314) is expected toincrease if the density increases up to some point, beyond which thedensity score (314) is expected to decrease. A bell-shaped function(binomial distribution) with a mean of 15000 and a standard deviation of20000 is used to convert population density to the score.

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Population Density Score} = \text{100 x}} \\{\text{exp}\left\lbrack {\text{-}\left( \text{population density-15000} \right)} \right\rbrack} \\\text{20000}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the market score (320) comprises acrime score (313). The crime score is calculated as follows. Violentcrime index and Property Crime index (306) in an area are obtained fromthe marked data present the closest market database (303), both rangingfrom 0 to 100 (the lower the crime index, the safer the area). CrimeScore (313) is calculated as:

$\begin{array}{l}\text{Crime\_Score =} \\{\text{100 -}\left( \text{violent crime index + property crime index} \right)/2.}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the market score (320) comprises ahouse appreciation score (315). The House Appreciation score iscalculated as follows. The data base provides us with the data regardinghouse appreciation in the last year as well as in the last five years(308) obtained from the marked data present in the closest marketdatabase (303). The appreciation values are provided in a way that

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{current\_house\_price = house\_price\_last\_year} \times} \\{\left( {1\,\, \times \,\,\text{appreciation\_last\_year}} \right).}\end{array}$

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Similarly, current\_house\_price = price\_5yrs\_ago} \times} \\{\left( \text{1 + appreciation\_in\_5yrs} \right).}\end{array}$

The house appreciation score is calculated as:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Appreciation\_score} = \text{0}\text{.7 x appreciation\_last year +}} \\{\text{0}\text{.3 x}\left( {1\text{/5}} \right)\text{x appreciation \_5 years}\text{.}}\end{array}$

A weightage of ⅕ is used to convert the 5 yr appreciation score into theframe of 1 year. The weights of 0.7 and 0.3 are the weight associatedwith appreciation last year and appreciation in the last five years,respectively.

According to an embodiment herein, the market score (320) comprises aJob Prospect Score (316). The Job Prospect Score (316) is calculated asfollows. The current unemployment rate and future job growth index (309)are obtained from the marked data present in the closest market database(303). The data is in such a unit that

Employed_fraction = 1 − unemployment_rate

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Future\_employed\_fraction} = \text{Current\_employed\_fraction} \times} \\{\left( {1 + \text{job\_growth}} \right)}\end{array}$

Combining these two equations:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Future\_employed\_fraction} = \left( {1 - \text{unemployment\_rate}} \right) \times} \\{\left( {1 + \text{job\_growth}} \right)}\end{array}$

The future employed fraction is then converted into the job prospectscore as:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Job\_prospect\_score} = 100 \times} \\{\left( {1 - \text{exp}\left( {- 2 \times \text{future\_employed\_fraction}} \right)} \right).}\end{array}$

According to an embodiment herein, the market score (320) comprisesWeather Score (317). The Weather score is calculated as follows: Weathercomfortability (310) is obtained from the marked data present in theclosest market database (303), and it ranges from 0 to 10, out of which10 indicates the best. To convert weather comfortability range into aweather score, it is simply multiplied by 10.

Weather_score = 10 × weather_comfortability

According to an embodiment herein, the market score (320) comprises AirQuality Score and Water quality score (318). The Air quality and waterquality score is calculated as follows: Air quality and water quality(311) of the closest city are obtained from the marked data present inthe closest market database (303), both ranging from 0 to 100, 100 beingthe best. These values are used as it is in the air quality score andwater quality score.

According to an embodiment herein, the market score (320) comprisesShort-term rental trend score (319) based on short term rental trenddata (305) derived from short term rental data (304) obtained from theclosest market data base (303) with respect to property location. Theshort-term rental trend score (319) is calculated by filtering bylocation with a radius of 2000 m, and k=100 is used to find the market.

Finally, the market score (320) is calculated mathematically as follows:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Market\_score}\,\text{=}\,\text{0}\text{.1} \times \text{walk\_score + 0}\text{.05} \times} \\{\text{population\_density\_score + 0}\text{.1} \times \text{crime\_score + 0}\text{.2} \times} \\{\text{house\_appreciation\_score +0}\text{.1} \times \text{job\_prospect\_score +}} \\{\text{0}\text{.1} \times \text{weather\_score + 0}\text{.05} \times \text{air\_quality\_score + 0}\text{.05} \times} \\{\text{water\_quality\_score}\text{.}}\end{array}$

FIG. 4 . illustrates a block diagram (400) depicting the calculation ofthe final investment ranking score or BRAIN score (406). It iscalculated as a weighted average of its components comprising financialscore (403), proximity score (404) and market score (405), which arebased on the property features (401) and the external data (402). Thefinal investment score is mathematically represented by the followingequation:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Final Investment Ranking Score = 0}\text{.5} \times \text{financial\_score +}} \\{\text{0}\text{.25} \times \text{proximity\_score + 0}\text{.25} \times \text{market\_score}}\end{array}$

Although the embodiments herein are described with various specificembodiments, it will be obvious for a person skilled in the art topractice the embodiments herein with modifications.

The foregoing description of the specific embodiments will so fullyreveal the general nature of the embodiments herein that others can, byapplying current knowledge, readily modify and/or adapt for variousapplications such as specific embodiments without departing from thegeneric concept, and, therefore, such adaptations and modificationsshould and are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and rangeof equivalents of the disclosed embodiments.

It is to be understood that the phraseology or terminology employedherein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.Therefore, while the embodiments herein have been described in terms ofpreferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that theembodiments herein can be practiced with modifications. However, allsuch modifications are deemed to be within the scope of the claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A computer implemented system comprising hardwareprocessor and memory stored with a plurality of computer implementedinstructions for analysing, evaluating and ranking properties withrespect to investments on properties, based on a plurality of mutuallydifferent factors using artificial intelligence through one or morealgorithms or software applications, the system comprises: a datacollection module run on the hardware processor and configured tocollect a plurality of data related to a plurality of properties underconsideration from a plurality of sources by means of API connection,web scraping from various third party systems through one or moreapplications or algorithms, and wherein the plurality of data comprisesa plurality of location based parameters, a plurality of physicalparameters related to the plurality of properties, and a plurality ofinvestment related parameters of the plurality of properties; a primaryfilter run on the hardware processor and configured to remove theplurality of properties that do not meet a preliminary criterion from anacquisition pipeline through the one or more applications or algorithms,and wherein the plurality of criteria comprises legal, crime rating,liability, and liveability, criteria of the plurality of properties; aranking engine comprising an artificial intelligence (AI) model loadedon the hardware processor and run on the hardware processor to executethe instruction stored on a memory to receive and analyse the pluralityof collected data on the plurality of properties to provide a rankingbased investment score for a property under evaluation or consideration;a web-based application to compliment the investment score provided bythe AI model to enable analysts to evaluate and provide a finalranking-based investment score for the property under valuation, andwherein the final ranking score is used to retain the AI model; whereinthe final ranking-based investment score comprises two components, andwherein the final ranking-based investment score is a weighted sum ofproximity score, market score and financial score, and wherein the finalranking-based investment score is obtained mathematically using anequation: $\begin{array}{l}\text{the final ranking-based investment score =} \\{\text{0}\text{.25 * Proximity Score + 0}\text{.25 * Market Score + 0}\text{.5 *}} \\\text{Financial Score;}\end{array}$ wherein the proximity score comprises downtown score,restaurant score, airport score, attraction score, and store score, andwherein the market score comprises walk score, population density score,crime score, house appreciation score, job prospect score, weatherscore, air quality score, and water quality score, and wherein the finalinvestment ranking score is simply a weighted sum of financial score,proximity score and market score, and wherein the brain score ismathematically represented as: $\begin{array}{l}{\text{Brian Score = 0}\text{.25 * proximity score + 0}\text{.25 *}} \\{\text{market score + 0}\text{.5 * Financial Score,}}\end{array}$ and wherein the proximity score is calculated using theequation: $\begin{array}{l}{proximity\_ score = 0.1 \times downtown\_ score + 0.1 \times} \\{restaurant\_ score + 0.3 \times airport\_ score + 0.3 \times} \\{store\_ score + 0.1 \times attraction\_ score\text{;}\,\,\text{and}}\end{array}$ wherein the market score is calculated mathematically asfollows: $\begin{array}{l}{Market\_ score = 0.1 \times walk\_ score + 0.05 \times} \\{population\_ density\_ score + 0.1 \times crime\_ score + 0.2 \times} \\{house\_ appreciation\_ score + 0.1 \times job\_ prospect\_ score +} \\{0.1 \times weather\_ score + 0.05 \times air\_ quality\_ score + 0.05 \times} \\{water\_ quality\_ score}\end{array}$ .
 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the pluralityof location-based parameters comprises full address of the property, andwherein the address includes name of the city in which the property islocated, state, zip code, latitude, and longitude of the property. 3.The system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of physicalparameters or data comprises a type of property and amenities providedin the property, and wherein the amenities include maximum number ofguests accommodated in the property, number of bathrooms and bedroomsprovided in the property, and wherein a furnishing price of the propertyis calculated based on the number of bedrooms and number of bathrooms.4. The system according to claim 1, wherein AI model is configured toperform a cohort analysis on the location-based parameter including fulladdress data, zip code, the latitude and longitude coordinates, and thephysical parameters to obtain an output, and wherein an output of thecohort analysis is subjected to time series analysis to compute anexpected month-wise ADR and an expected month-wise reservation days tocompute an expected yearly revenue for the property.
 5. The systemaccording to claim 1, wherein the investment related features of theproperty comprise listed price of price of the property on market, thenumber of days on market with the listed price, and the last known priceon the market, and the current status of the property, and wherein apurchase price of the property is calculated based on the listed priceof price of the property on market, the number of days on market withthe listed price, and the last known price on the market, and wherein aproperty tax and the utility tax are calculated based on the computedpurchase price of the property, and wherein a closing coat and the totalutility cost are calculated based on the computed purchase value andcomputed furnishing cost.
 6. The system according to claim 1, wherein aplurality of derived parameters is calculated based on the collectedinvestment related parameters, and wherein the derived parametersinclude an insurance cost and the HOA fees for the property.
 7. Thesystem according to claim 1, wherein a property management cost, and arepair and maintenance cost are calculated based on the estimatedexpected yearly revenue of the property.
 8. The system according toclaim 1, wherein an operating expense for the property is calculatedbased on the computed property management cost, the computed repair andmaintenance cost, the computed property tax, the computed utility tax,the computed insurance cost and the computed HOA fees for the property.9. The system according to claim 1, wherein a net operating income iscalculated based on the estimated expected yearly revenue of theproperty and the computed operating expenses of the property.
 10. Thesystem according to claim 1, wherein a cap rate for the property iscalculated based on the computed net operating income and the totalutility cost of the property, and wherein a financial score of theproperty is calculated based on the computed cap rate for the property.11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the collectedlocation-based data and the collected physical parameter data of theproperty under consideration are filtered using a filtering module tofind short term rentals of the property similar to the property underconsideration, and wherein the parameters used for filtering compriseslatitude and longitude coordinates, Zip code, number of bed rooms, andnumber of bath rooms, maximum number of guests to be accommodated, andtype of property, and amenities provided in the property for theproperty under consideration, and wherein the property underconsideration is ignored and ranked of least interest or ranking, whenthe number of computations obtained based on the search criteria is lessthan 12, and wherein the number of filtering criteria is reduced untilat least a dozen computations are obtained, and wherein a dozencomputations are obtained, when the number of filtering criteria isgreater than 4, and wherein the number of filtering criteria is equal toor less than 4, a search for the property in a broader vicinity isconducted, and wherein, at least a dozen properties with their monthlyRevenue, ADR, occupancy rates, and reservation days are obtained afterthe completion of cohort analysis.
 12. The system according to claim 1,wherein a time-series analysis is performed on the computed data todevelop an AI model to estimate monthly ADR, occupancy rates, revenue,and reservation days of the property under consideration for the future.13. The system according to claim 1, wherein a cap rate for the propertyis calculated using the AI algorithm which is executed on a hardwareprocessor in the system, and wherein the steps of calculating the caprate using the AI algorithm are as follows: a) Inputproperty_tax_percentage, utility_percentage, closing_cost_percentage,property_management_percentage, repair_and_maintainance_percentagevalues; b) Calculate the annual value using the following mathematicalequation: $\begin{array}{l}\text{annual\_revenue =} \\\text{sum of month-wise product of ADR and reservation days;}\end{array}$ c) Calculate the property tax using the followingmathematical equation: $\begin{array}{l}\text{property\_tax =property\_tax\_percentage/100 *} \\\text{purchase\_price;}\end{array}$ d) Calculate the utility value using the followingmathematical equation:utility = utility_percentage/100 * purchase_price; e) Calculate theproperty management cost using the following mathematical equation:$\begin{array}{l}\text{property\_management =} \\{\text{property\_management\_percentage/100*annual\_revenue};}\end{array}$ f) Calculate the repair and maintenance cost of theproperty using the following mathematical equation: $\begin{array}{l}{\text{repair\_and\_maintainance}\text{=}\,\,\,} \\{\text{repair\_and\_maintainance\_percentage}\,\,\,\text{/}\,\,\text{100}\,\,\,\,\text{*}} \\{\text{annual\_revenue};}\end{array}$ g) Calculate the operating expenses cost of the propertyusing the following mathematical equation: $\begin{array}{l}{\text{operating\_expenses}\,\,\text{=}\,\,\text{utility}\,\,\,\text{+}\,\,\text{property\_tax}\,\,\text{+}\,\,\text{insurance}\,\,\text{+}\,} \\{\,\text{HOA}\,\text{fees}\,\text{+}\,\,\text{property\_management}\,\, +} \\{\text{repair\_and\_maintaince};}\end{array}$ h) Calculate the net operating income of the property usingthe following mathematical equation:net_operating_income = annual_revenue - operating_expenses; i) Calculatethe closing cost of the property using the following mathematicalequation: $\begin{array}{l}{\text{closing\_cost}\,\text{=}\,\text{closing\_cost\_percentage}\,\text{/}\,\text{100 *}\,} \\{\left( \text{purchase\_price + furniture\_price} \right);}\end{array}$ j) Calculate the total utility value of the property usingthe following mathematical equation:total_uses = purchase_price + furniture_price + closing_cost; k)Calculate the cap rate for the property using the following mathematicalequation: cap_rate = net_operating_income / total uses * 100 .
 14. Thesystem according to claim 1, wherein the financial score for theproperty is assigned based on the computed caprate value using analgorithm, and wherein the financial score is calculated using thealgorithm as given below: If cap_rate < 5: then the Financial_Score = 4∗ cap_rate; If 5 < cap_rate < 16: then the Financial Score = 0.0017x5 -0.0926x4+2.0435x3-23.1037x2+142.5287x - 317.7937; If cap_rate > 16: thenthe Financial Score =
 100. 15. A computer implemented comprisinginstructions stored on a non-transitory computer rabble storage mediumand executed on a hardware processor provided in a computing systemhaving memory, for analysing, evaluating and ranking properties withrespect to investments on properties, based on a plurality of mutuallydifferent factors using artificial intelligence through one or morealgorithms or software applications, the method comprises: collecting aplurality of data related to a plurality of properties underconsideration with a data collection module run on the hardwareprocessor, from a plurality of sources by means of API connection, webscraping from various third party systems through one or moreapplications or algorithms, and wherein the plurality of data comprisesa plurality of location-based parameters, a plurality of physicalparameters related to the plurality of properties, and a plurality ofinvestment related parameters of the plurality of properties; removingthe plurality of properties that do not meet a preliminary criterionfrom an acquisition pipeline through the one or more applications oralgorithms a primary filter that is run on the hardware processor, andwherein the plurality of criteria comprises legal, crime rating,liability, and liveability, criteria of the plurality of properties;loading a ranking engine comprising an artificial intelligence (AI)model on the hardware processor and run on the hardware processor toexecute the instruction stored on a memory to receive and analyse theplurality of collected data on the plurality of properties to provide aranking based investment score for a property under evaluation orconsideration; running a web-based platform stored with a web-basedapplication to compliment the investment score provided by the AI modelto enable analysts to evaluate and provide a final ranking-basedinvestment score for the property under valuation, and wherein the finalranking score is used to retain the AI model; wherein the finalranking-based investment score comprises two components, and wherein thefinal ranking-based investment score is a weighted sum of proximityscore, market score and financial score, and wherein the finalranking-based investment score is obtained mathematically using anequation, the final ranking-based investment score = 0.25 ∗ ProximityScore + 0.25 ∗ Market Score + 0.5 ∗ Financial Score; wherein theproximity score comprises downtown score, restaurant score, airportscore, attraction score, and store score, and wherein the market scorecomprises walk score, population density score, crime score, houseappreciation score, job prospect score, weather score, air qualityscore, and water quality score, and wherein the final investment rankingscore is simply a weighted sum of financial score, proximity score andmarket score, and wherein the brain score is mathematically representedas: $\begin{array}{l}{\text{Brain Score = 0}\text{.25 * proximity score + 0}\text{.25 * market score +}} \\{\text{0}\text{.5 * Financial Score,}}\end{array}$ and wherein the proximity score is calculated using theequation: $\begin{array}{l}{proximity\_ score = 0.1 \times downtown\_ score + 0.1 \times} \\{restaurant\_ score + 0.3 \times airport\_ score + 0.3 \times} \\{store\_ score + 0.1 \times attraction\_ score\text{;}\,\,\text{and}}\end{array}$ wherein the market score is calculated mathematically asfollows: $\begin{array}{l}{Market\_ score = 0.1 \times walk\_ score + 0.05 \times} \\{population\_ density\_ score + 0.1 \times crime\_ score + 0.2 \times} \\{house\_ appreciation\_ score + 0.1 \times job\_ prospect\_ score +} \\{0.1 \times weather\_ score + 0.05 \times air\_ quality\_ score + 0.05 \times} \\{water\_ quality\_ score}\end{array}$ .
 16. The method according to claim 15, wherein theplurality of location-based parameters comprises full address of theproperty, and wherein the address includes name of the city in which theproperty is located, state, zip code, latitude, and longitude of theproperty.
 17. The method according to claim 15, wherein the plurality ofphysical parameters or data comprises a type of property and amenitiesprovided in the property, and wherein the amenities include maximumnumber of guests accommodated in the property, number of bath rooms anda number of bedrooms provided in the property, and wherein a furnishingprice of the property is calculated based on the number of bedrooms andnumber of bathrooms.
 18. The method according to claim 15, wherein AImodel is configured to perform a cohort analysis on the plurality oflocation-based parameters including full address data, zip code, thelatitude and longitude coordinates, and the physical parameters toobtain an output, and wherein the output of the cohort analysis issubjected to a time series analysis to compute an expected month-wiseADR and an expected month-wise reservation days to compute an expectedyearly revenue for the property.
 19. The method according to claim 15,wherein the investment related features of the property comprise listedprice of the property on market, the number of days on market with thelisted price, and the last known price on the market, and the currentstatus of the property, and wherein a purchase price of the property iscalculated based on the listed price of price of the property on market,the number of days on market with the listed price, and the last knownprice on the market, and wherein a property tax and the utility tax arecalculated based on the computed purchase price of the property, andwherein a closing coat and the total utility cost are calculated basedon the computed purchase value and computed furnishing cost.
 20. Themethod according to claim 15, wherein a plurality of derived parametersis calculated based on the collected investment related parameters, andwherein the derived parameters include an insurance cost and the HOAfees for the property.
 21. The method according to claim 15, wherein aproperty management cost, and a repair and maintenance cost arecalculated based on the estimated expected yearly revenue of theproperty.
 22. The method according to claim 15, wherein an operatingexpense for the property is calculated based on the computed propertymanagement cost, the computed repair and maintenance cost, the computedproperty tax, the computed utility tax, the computed insurance cost andthe computed HOA fees for the property.
 23. The method according toclaim 15, wherein a net operating income is calculated based on theestimated expected yearly revenue of the property and the computedoperating expenses of the property.
 24. The method according to claim15, wherein a cap rate for the property is calculated based on thecomputed net operating income and the total utility cost of theproperty, and wherein a financial score of the property is calculatedbased on the computed cap rate for the property.
 25. The methodaccording to claim 15, wherein the collected location-based data and thecollected physical parameter data of the property under considerationare filtered using a filtering module to find short term rentals of theproperty similar to the property under consideration, and wherein theparameters used for filtering comprises latitude and longitudecoordinates, Zip code, number of bed rooms, and number of bath rooms,maximum number of guests to be accommodated, and type of property, andamenities provided in the property for the property under consideration,and wherein the property under consideration is ignored and ranked ofleast interest or ranking, when the number of computations obtainedbased on the search criteria is less than 12, and wherein the number offiltering criteria is reduced until at least a dozen computations areobtained, and wherein a dozen computations are obtained, when the numberof filtering criteria is greater than 4, and wherein the number offiltering criteria is equal to or less than 4, a search for the propertyin a broader vicinity is conducted, and wherein, at least a dozenproperties with their monthly Revenue, ADR, occupancy rates, andreservation days are obtained after the completion of cohort analysis.26. The method according to claim 15, wherein a time-series analysis isperformed on the computed data to develop an AI model to estimatemonthly ADR, occupancy rates, revenue, and reservation days of theproperty under consideration for the future.
 27. The method according toclaim 15, wherein the cap rate for the property is calculated using theAI algorithm which is executed on a hardware processor in the system,and wherein the steps of calculating the cap rate comprises: Inputproperty_tax_percentage, utility_percentage, closing_cost_percentage,property_management_percentage, repair_and_maintainance_percentagevalues; Calculate the annual value using the following mathematicalequation: Calculate the property tax using the following mathematicalequation: Calculate the utility value using the following mathematicalequation: Calculate the property management cost using the followingmathematical equation: Calculate the repair and maintenance cost of theproperty using the following mathematical equation: Calculate theoperating expenses cost of the property using the following mathematicalequation: Calculate the net operating income of the property using thefollowing mathematical equation: Calculate the closing cost of theproperty using the following mathematical equation: Calculate the totalutility value of the property using the following mathematical equation:Calculate the cap rate for the property using the following mathematicalequation: .
 28. The method according to claim 15, wherein a financialscore for the property is assigned based on the computed caprate valueusing an algorithm, and wherein the financial score is calculated usingthe algorithm as given below: If cap_rate < 5: then the Financial_Score= 4 ∗ cap_rate; If 5 < cap_rate < 16: then the Financial Score =0.0017x5 - 0.0926x4+2.0435x3-23.1037x2+142.5287x - 317.7937; Ifcap_rate > 16: then the Financial Score = 100.